This is a list of American Civil War monuments and memorials associated with the Union. Monuments and memorials are listed below alphabetically by state. States not listed have no known qualifying items for the list.

4 Civil War Cannon; "whether it was idle curiosity or absence of thought that caused Phil Schaller to fire one of the cannon to awaken the town on July 4, 1895, one will never know. The force of the cannon fire broke all the windows on the south side of the court house and many windows in the Main Street business district. (Sac City, Iowa, p. 19)"

According to Kansas Civil War Monuments (kcwmonumnets.com) there are 105 counties in Kansas and virtually all have a monument to Union soldiers of the Civil War. Many were funded by GAR posts or Sons of Union Civil War Veterans, today the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

McPherson, Kansas and McPherson County are named after Union General James McPherson. There is also a monument to him and another monument to Union Civil War soldiers fighting for him. The monument was erected in 1917.[citation needed]

Baxter Springs Civil War Monument erected in 1886 after Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) post collected more than 7,000 signatures from former soldiers. The monument is located in the Soldier's Lot of the Baxter Springs Cemetery, and is dedicated to the 132 soldiers who died in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863.

Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument, near Campbellsville. It includes a historical marker from state of Michigan, commemorating the Union soldiers, mostly immigrants from the Netherlands, who were given battle orders in Dutch.

Monument to United States Colored Troops (1st and 3rd Mississippi Infantry, African Descent) at Vicksburg National Military Park. The inscription reads: "Commemorating the Service of the 1st and 3d Mississippi Infantry, African Descent and All Mississippians of African Descent Who Participated in the Vicksburg Campaign."

The Illinois Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park. Commemorating the 36,325 Illinois soldiers who participated in the Vicksburg Campaign and has 47 steps, one for every day Vicksburg was besieged.

Kentucky memorial composed of bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, both native Kentuckians, Vicksburg National Military Park.[32]

Huntington Union monument dedicated by Bailey Post of the G.A.R.. Formerly located at the corner of Fifth Ave. and Ninth St., it was scheduled to be moved to Ritter Park in 1915, but was subsequently lost.[49]

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Memorials to Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln, U. S. president 1861–65, has been memorialized in many town, city, and county names, Along with George Washington, he is an iconic image of American democracy and nationalism. During the Great Depression, he asays, Lincoln served as a means for seeing the worlds disappointments, franklin D. Roosevelt, preparing America for war, used the words of the Civil War president to clarify the threat posed by Germany and Japan. Americans asked, What would Lincoln do, however, he also finds that since World War II, Lincolns symbolic power has lost relevance, and this fading hero is symptomatic of fading confidence in national greatness. He suggested that postmodernism and multiculturalism have diluted greatness as a concept, while Lincoln remains in the very top tier of presidential rankings, all of the presidents have slipped in historical prestige in the publics mind. Lincoln sites remain popular tourist attractions, but crowds have thinned, in the late 1960s,650,000 people a year visited the home in Springfield, slipping to 393,000 in 2000–2003. Likewise visits to New Salem fell by half, probably because of the draw of the new museum in Springfield. Visits to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington peaked at 4.3 million in 1987 and have since declined, however crowds at Fords Theatre in Washington have grown sharply. The Association has held a banquet in Jersey City every year on Lincolns birthday, the Association has been addressed by a number of people of national importance, including political figures, military veterans, educators and civil rights leaders. The Association celebrated its 150th anniversary on February 12,2015, the Associations annual dinner featured speaker Todd Brewster, author of Lincolns Gamble, about the struggle to create the Emancipation Proclamation. The memorials include the name of the capital of Nebraska, the first public monument to Abraham Lincoln, after his death, was a statue erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after his assassination. C. Lincolns name and image appear in other places, such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Fords Theatre and Petersen House are maintained as museums, as is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, located in Springfield. The Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, contains his remains, springfields airport is named for him, the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport. The group entered his tomb, but had succeeded in partially dislodging its marble lid before a US Secret Service agent who had infiltrated their number alerted law enforcement authorities. Although several escaped, most served a prison term. For much of the decade, Lincolns tomb was mobile. Within a year of death, Lincolns image began to be disseminated throughout the world on stamps. Pictured on many United States postage stamps, Lincoln is the only U. S. President to appear on a U. S. airmail stamp, Lincoln was one of five people to be depicted on United States paper currency during their lifetime

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American Civil War
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The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America, the Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U. S. history. Among the 34 U. S. states in February 1861, War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates attacked the U. S. fortress of Fort Sumter. The Confederacy grew to eleven states, it claimed two more states, the Indian Territory, and the southern portions of the western territories of Arizona. The Confederacy was never recognized by the United States government nor by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal, including border states where slavery was legal, were known as the Union or the North, the war ended with the surrender of all the Confederate armies and the dissolution of the Confederate government in the spring of 1865. The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. The Confederacy collapsed and 4 million slaves were freed, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. The first six to declare secession had the highest proportions of slaves in their populations, the first seven with state legislatures to resolve for secession included split majorities for unionists Douglas and Bell in Georgia with 51% and Louisiana with 55%. Alabama had voted 46% for those unionists, Mississippi with 40%, Florida with 38%, Texas with 25%, of these, only Texas held a referendum on secession. Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession, outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal. Lincolns March 4,1861 inaugural address declared that his administration would not initiate a civil war, speaking directly to the Southern States, he reaffirmed, I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. After Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy, efforts at compromise failed, the Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on King Cotton that they would intervene, but none did, and none recognized the new Confederate States of America. Hostilities began on April 12,1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, while in the Western Theater the Union made significant permanent gains, in the Eastern Theater, the battle was inconclusive in 1861–62. The autumn 1862 Confederate campaigns into Maryland and Kentucky failed, dissuading British intervention, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. To the west, by summer 1862 the Union destroyed the Confederate river navy, then much of their western armies, the 1863 Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River. In 1863, Robert E. Lees Confederate incursion north ended at the Battle of Gettysburg, Western successes led to Ulysses S. Grants command of all Union armies in 1864

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Monument
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The term monument is often applied to buildings or structures that are considered examples of important architectural and/or cultural heritage. Monuments have been created for thousands of years, and they are often the most durable, in more recent times, monumental structures such as the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower have become iconic emblems of modern nation-states. The term monumentality relates to the status and physical presence of a monument. Monuments are frequently used to improve the appearance of a city or location, planned cities such as Washington D. C. New Delhi and Brasília are often built around monuments, for example, the Washington Monuments location was conceived by LEnfant to help organize public space in the city, before it was designed or constructed. Older cities have monuments placed at locations that are important or are sometimes redesigned to focus on one. As Shelley suggested in his famous poem Ozymandias, the purpose of monuments is often to impress or awe. Structures created for purposes that have been made notable by their age. This can happen because of age and size, as in the case of the Great Wall of China. Monuments are also designed to convey historical or political information. They can be used to reinforce the primacy of political power. The social meanings of monuments are rarely fixed and certain and are contested by different social groups. This contention of meaning is a theme of modern post processual archaeological discourse. Until recently, it was customary for archaeologists to study large monuments, New ideas about what constitutes the archaeological record have revealed that certain legislative and theoretical approaches to the subject are too focused on earlier definitions of monuments. An example has been the United Kingdoms Scheduled Ancient Monument laws, recently, more and more monuments are being preserved digitally through organisations as CyArk. Cenotaphs and other memorials to commemorate the dead, usually war casualties, e. g. India Gate and Vimy Ridge Memorial, or disaster casualties, such as the Titanic Memorial, Belfast. Church monuments to commemorate the dead, located above or near their grave, often featuring an effigy, columns, often topped with a statue, e. g. Berlin Victory Column, Nelsons Column in London, and Trajans Column in Rome. Gravestones, small monuments to the deceased, placed at their gravesites, e. g. the tombs and vaults of veterans in Les Invalides, mausoleums and tombs to honor the dead, e. g. the Great Pyramid of Giza and Taj Mahal

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Memorial
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A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains, the most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are war memorials commemorating those who have died in wars, memorials in the form of a cross are called intending crosses. Online memorials and tributes are becoming popular especially with the increase in natural burial where the laying of gravestones. When somebody has died, the family may request that a gift be given to a designated charity. Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called grassroots memorials, sometimes, when a high school student has died, the memorials are placed in the form of a scholarship, to be awarded to high-achieving students in future years

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Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)
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Abraham Lincoln is a colossal seated figure of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln sculpted by Daniel Chester French and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. It is situated in the Lincoln Memorial, on the National Mall, Washington, USA, and was unveiled in 1922. Stylistically, the work follows in the Beaux Arts and American Renaissance traditions, the 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble and rises 30 feet from the floor, including the 19-foot seated figure upon an 11-foot high pedestal. The figure of Lincoln gazes directly ahead and slightly down with an expression of gravity and solemnity and his frock coat is unbuttoned, and a large United States flag is draped over the chair back and sides. French used casts of his own fingers to achieve the correct placement, Daniel Chester French was selected in 1914 by the Lincoln Memorial Committee to create a Lincoln statue as part of the memorial to be designed by architect Henry Bacon. French was already famous for his Minute Man statue in Concord and he was also the personal choice of Bacon who had already been collaborating with him for nearly 25 years. French resigned his chairmanship of the Fine Arts Commission in Washington, D. C. —a group closely affiliated with the memorials design, French had already created a major memorial statue of Lincoln—this one standing—for the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. His previous studies of Lincoln—which included biographies, photographs, and a mask of Lincoln by Leonard Volk done in 1860—had prepared him for the challenging task of the larger statue. For the national memorial, he and Bacon decided that a seated figure would be most appropriate. French started with a small study and subsequently created several plaster models. He placed the President not in an ordinary 19th-century seat, but in a classical chair including fasces, three plaster models of the Lincoln statue are at Frenchs Chesterwood Studio, a National Trust Historic Site in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, including a plaster sketch and a six-foot plaster model. The second of Frenchs plasters, created at Chesterwood in the summer of 1916 would be further enlarged, the work was originally to have been a 12-foot bronze image. To determine the scale and size for the memorial statue French. Frenchs longtime collaborators, the firm of Piccirilli Brothers, were commissioned to do the carving of a much larger sculpture in marble from a quarry near Tate and it took a full year for Frenchs design to be transferred to the massive marble blocks. French provided finishing strokes in the studio in New York City. Lighting the statue was a particular problem, in creating the work, French had understood that a large skylight would provide direct, natural illumination from overhead, but this was not included in the final plans. The horizontal light from the east caused Lincolns facial features to appear flattened—making him appear to stare blankly, in the end, an arrangement of electric lights was devised to correct this situation. The work was unveiled at the formal dedication on May 30,1922

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Abraham Lincoln (Flannery)
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Abraham Lincoln is a marble sculpture of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln by Irish artist Lot Flannery, located in front of the old District of Columbia City Hall in Washington, D. C. It was installed several blocks from Fords Theatre, where Lincoln was assassinated, the statue has been removed and rededicated twice. The first rededication was in 1923 following an outpouring of support from citizens, the second rededication took place in 2009 after a three-year remodeling of the old City Hall. The statue is the nations oldest extant memorial to the president and it previously stood on a column, but now rests on top of an octagonal base. Most of the residents of Washington, D. C. were shocked and horrified by the assassination of Republican President Abraham Lincoln on April 14,1865, because of its geographical location, the city was sometimes suspected of being sympathetic to the Confederacy during the Civil War. Since Lincoln was killed in Washington, some of the residents worried Republican congressional leaders would seek revenge on the city, thirteen days after Lincoln died, in an attempt to show loyalty, city and business leaders decided to erect a memorial honoring the slain president. It was the first Lincoln monument commissioned after his death, in 1866, a plaster statue of Lincoln was erected in San Francisco. It was destroyed during the firestorm that followed the 1906 earthquake, the total cost of the memorial was $25,000. Washingtonians were responsible for most of the donations with the funds raised by the Lincoln Monument Association. The largest donation came from John T. Ford, the manager of Fords Theatre at the time of Lincolns assassination and he held a benefit performance at his theater in Baltimore, raising $1,800. Flannery had known Lincoln and was at Fords Theatre the night of the assassination and his statue is the only statue of Lincoln created by someone who knew him. Frank G. Pierson was chosen to be the monuments architect, on the evening of April 14,1868, the Lincoln statue was moved from Flannerys studio to City Hall. The covered statue was guarded by police so no one could see it before the ceremony the following day. On April 15, all of the offices were closed at noon. An estimated 20,000 people, around 20% of Washingtons population, dignitaries at the dedication included President Andrew Johnson, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William Tecumseh Sherman, and General Winfield Scott Hancock. Supreme Court Justices and members of Congress were not in attendance because Johnsons impeachment trial was taking place, a Masonic ceremony, along with music and prayers, took place at the dedication before the main speech by Major General Benjamin Brown French. Following the speech, Washington mayor Richard Wallach introduced Johnson, who uncovered the statue, the crowd cheered, followed by more music and finally a benediction. In 1919, the memorial was dismantled and placed in storage during the renovations of City Hall, some of the citys residents and officials didnt want the memorial reinstalled when renovations were complete since the much larger and grander Lincoln Memorial was already under construction

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Vinnie Ream
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Lavinia Ellen Vinnie Ream Hoxie was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the U. S. Capitol rotunda, Ream was born September 25,1847, in a log cabin in Madison, Wisconsin, as Lavinia Ellen Ream. She was the youngest daughter of Lavinia and Robert Ream, Robert Ream was a surveyor and a Wisconsin Territory civil servant. Her mother was a McDonald of Scottish ancestry, the Reams also operated a stage coach stop, one of the first hotels in Madison, from their home. Her brother Robert Ream enlisted in the Confederate army, in Arkansas, Vinnie Ream attended Christian College in Columbia, Missouri, now known as Columbia College. A portrait of Martha Washington by Ream hangs in St. Clair Hall, in 1861, her family moved to Washington, D. C. After her fathers health began to fail, she began working outside the home to support her family. Vinnie Ream was one of the first women to be employed by the federal government and she sang at the E Street Baptist Church, and for the wounded at Washington, D. C. hospitals. She collected materials for the Grand Sanitary Commission, in 1863, James S. Rollins introduced Ream to sculptor Clark Mills. She became an apprentice in Millss sculpting studio the next year, in 1864, President Lincoln agreed to model for her in the morning for five months, and she created a bust of his figure. During this time, Ream also began intense public relations efforts, selling photographs of herself, Vinnie Ream was the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission as an artist from the United States government for a statue. She was awarded the commission for the full-size Carrara marble statue of Lincoln by a vote of Congress on July 28,1866 and she had used her previous bust of Lincoln as her entry into the selection contest for the full-size sculpture. She was notorious for her beauty and her skills, which likely contributed to these accusations. She worked in a studio in Room A of the basement of the Capitol, senator Edmund G. Ross boarded with Reams family during the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Ross cast the vote against the removal of President Johnson from office. She was almost thrown out of the Capitol with her unfinished Lincoln statue, once the U. S. government had approved the plaster model, Ream traveled to Paris, Munich, Florence, then Rome, to produce a finished marble figure. She studied with Léon Bonnat in Paris, also producing busts of Gustave Doré, Père Hyacynthe, Franz Liszt and her studio in Rome was at 45 Via de San Basile. She met Georg Brandes at that time, while in Rome, she faced controversial rumors that claimed that it was the Italian workmen and not Ream who were responsible for her successful sculpture of Lincoln

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United States Capitol rotunda
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The United States Capitol rotunda is the central rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C. Located below the Capitol dome, it is the tallest part of the Capitol and has described as its symbolic. The rotunda is surrounded by corridors connecting the House of Representatives, to the south of the rotunda is the semi-circular National Statuary Hall, which until 1857 was the House of Representatives chamber. To the northeast of the rotunda is the Old Senate Chamber, used by the Senate until 1859 and by the Supreme Court of the United States until 1935. The rotunda is 96 feet in diameter and rises 48 feet to the top of its walls and 180 feet 3 inches to the canopy of the dome, the dome is surmounted by the American Statue of Freedom. It is also used for ceremonial events authorized by concurrent resolution, the doctor and architect William Thornton was the winner of the contest to design the Capitol in 1793. Thornton had first conceived the idea of a central rotunda, however, due to lack of funds or resources, oft-interrupted construction, and the British attack on Washington during the War of 1812, work on the rotunda did not begin until 1818. The rotunda was designed in the style and was intended to evoke the design of the Pantheon. The sandstone rotunda walls rise 48 feet above the floor, everything above this—the Capitol dome–was designed in 1854 by Thomas U, Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol. Walter had also designed the Capitols north and south extensions, in 1862, Walter asked painter Constantino Brumidi to design a picture 65 feet in diameter, painted in fresco, on the concave canopy over the eye of the New Dome of the U. S. Capitol. At this time, Brumidi may have added a watercolor canopy design over Walters tentative 1859 sketch, the dome was being finished in the middle of the American Civil War and was constructed from fireproof cast iron. During the Civil War, the rotunda was used as a hospital for Union soldiers. The dome was completed in 1866. Originally the crypt had an open ceiling into the rotunda, visitors can still see the holes in the stone circle that marked the rim of the open space in the rotunda floor. In January 2013, the Architect of the Capitol announced a four-year, $10 million project to repair and conserve the Capitol Domes exterior, the dome and rotunda, which were last conserved in 1960, are showing significant signs of rust and disrepair. There is a danger that decorative ironwork could fall from the rotunda to the space below, without immediate repair, safety netting will be installed. Eight niches in the rotunda hold large, framed historical paintings, all are oil-on-canvas and measure 12 by 18 feet. Four of these are scenes from the American Revolution, painted by John Trumbull and these are Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning his Commission

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Joseph A. Bailly
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Joseph Alexis Bailly was a French-born American sculptor who spent most of his career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and his most famous work is the statue of George Washington in front of Independence Hall. The son of a Parisian cabinetmaker, Bailly attended the École des Beaux-Arts before being drafted into the Army during the Revolution of 1848 and he assaulted an officer, deserted, and fled to England where he studied briefly under the sculptor Edward Hodges Baily. After traveling to the United States and Argentina, he settled in Philadelphia in 1850, Bailly worked as a furniture carver before establishing a sculpture studio with Charles Buschor in 1854. Their first major commission was for the ornament and furniture of the New Masonic Hall at 713-21 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. This included 5 life-sized wood statues illustrating the female Masonic virtues and that was followed by the commission for the interior ornament of Philadelphias opera house, the Academy of Music. At the U. S. Capitol, Bailly designed the Monumental Clock for the United States House of Representatives Chamber, sculptor William Henry Rinehart designed the flanking bronze figures of the Backwoodsman and the Indian. Furniture makers Bembe & Kimbel manufactured the clock, and gilded the whole piece and it was removed from the House Chamber in 1950, and is now on display in the Capitols Crypt. One of his most accomplished works is the sculpture group Paradise Lost, depicting Adam. Its companion piece, First Prayer, shows Eve teaching their children, Cain. Both works were commissioned by Henry C, gibson, and are at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His giant bronze of Benjamin Franklin was installed on the corner of the Public Ledger Buildings facade and,250 feet away, his marble statue of George Washington stood before Independence Hall. Bailly carved a number of memorials, including that of the artist William Emlen Cresson, at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The surviving coin dies are unsigned, but design and/or carving of at least three of them are attributed to Bailly. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts beginning in 1851, was elected an Academician by PAFA in 1860, hired to teach at PAFA in 1876, he resigned two years later in a salary dispute, and Thomas Eakins took over his modeling class. Among his students were Howard Roberts, John J. Boyle and he exhibited several works at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, including the plaster model for an equestrian statue of Venezuelas president, Antonio Guzmán Blanco. Bailly died in Philadelphia in 1883, sideboard, with carving attributed to Bailly, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. New Masonic Hall, interior ornament and furniture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Gothic Room furniture survives at the current Philadelphia Masonic Temple

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Henry Kirke Brown
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Henry Kirke Brown was an American sculptor. He spent four years in Italy, but returning to New York he wanted to ensure he remained distinctively American and he bemoaned the fact that so many of the early American sculptors were dominated by Italian influence. Even so, his work combines American subject matter with the style of the Italian masters, in 1847, Brown was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1851. The New York Times remarked that the DeWitt Clinton was the first American full-length sculpture cast in a single piece and his nephew and adopted son, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, was also a sculptor and pupil of Browns

The United States five-dollar bill ($5) is a denomination of United States currency. The current $5 bill features the …

Image: US $5 Series 2006 obverse

Daguerreotype of Lincoln taken on the same February day by Mathew Brady, used for the redesigned $5 bills from 1999 onwards. Note that this image is a mirror of Lincoln as he appears on the bill - this is because the daguerreotype process produced a single positive image (rather than a negative made on film, which is then used to make a true photographic positive), and the daguerreotype was always a mirror image of the subject material. Thus, the way Lincoln appears on the bill is actually how he appeared when seated for the picture.

The reverse of the five-dollar bill has two rectangular strips that are blanked out when viewed in the infrared spectrum, as seen in this image taken by an infrared camera.